Wyclef Jean offered a teary defense of his charity work with Yele Haiti in a press conference just…
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Well, the New York Posttook a look at Yele's 2010 tax return—which showed a massive influx of $16 million in the wake of the earthquake and covered a period after Jean vowed to set things right—and found the same old self-dealing and shady accounting. For instance:

Despite taking in $16 million in donations explicitly for emergency relief, Yele spent just $5.1 million, or less than a third, on emergency relief efforts in Hait

The charity paid more than $300,000 to a contractor that is owned by Jean's brother-in-law.

It paid more than $1 million to a company that, according to the Post, "does not appear to exist."

A purported Miami business called Amisphere Farm Labor Inc. received a whopping $1,008,000 as a "food distributor."

No trace of the company could be found last week in the Sunshine State, but records show the company's head, Amsterly Pierre, bought three properties in Florida last year, including a condo in an upscale waterfront community.

It spent a wildly inflated $35,000 a month for a house in Haiti used by Yele staffers.

Yele Haiti, the sketchy foundation that Wyclef Jean founded to help the Haitian people—which…
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Today, Jean is out claiming that "the percentage of funds used is consistent with NGOs and Not For Profits operating in Haiti at the time," according to USA Today. Yele CEO Derek Q. Johnson told the paper that "the Post story focuses on transactions that are 'almost two years old' by a board and management team that have been replaced" and that his job has been to "make Yéle the squeaky clean, ethically driven and impactful NGO that our legendary founder, Wyclef Jean, always envisioned."